Working Man's
Collage
Once again, I already had an
illustration accepted by the magazine (just guessing but it looks like
either HONCHO or INCHES) when they contacted me to fill in at the last
minute for another artist who had submitted something unusable. As was
typically the case, I branched out to get a different "style" for the
emergency entry so my standard technique wouldn't overwhelm the issue.
This was the only time that I ever tried to do a collage. What's
interesting is that I drew on receipts and forms rather than drawing
paper, then just tore up the five or six sketches and pieced them
together. Not a monumental success (Hey, I only had two days to work on
it) but neither is it a failure. But I wasn't smitten enough with the
outcome to ever try repeating it.
— Michael Kirwan
Working Man's Collage — 1996 —
10" x 12" |